“My kids were pining for me [but] I was actually scared of them rejecting me,” she said.

“There’d been moments on the tour where I’d gone home for a few days and if one of them had fallen over, they’d go straight to daddy or to my mum – and that was painful because I obviously wanted them to come to me and feel comforted by me.

“Because I’d been away for such a long stretch of time, I was convinced they wouldn’t even know me so I was like, ‘I’ll keep working. I’ll just be away.'”

Robbie Williams was keen back in 2013 to keep his family united by taking his then nine-month old daughter Teddy on tour. He told Metro: “Of course she’s going to come on tour with us – she’s a very calming presence.

“It will probably mean I’ll get more sleep because she’s there, as opposed to less. She’s rounding off my sharp edges as the weeks progress.”